{"id":1004273726,"date":"2018-10-23T03:14:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004273726"},"modified":"2022-12-07T23:53:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T07:53:32","slug":"disney-world-to-add-nature-inspired-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/disney-world-to-add-nature-inspired-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney World to Add Nature-Themed Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Scott Baltic, Contributing Editor <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004273732\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/10\/Disney-World-to-Add-Nature-Inspired-Resort.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004273732\" data-attachment-id=\"1004273732\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/disney-world-to-add-nature-inspired-resort\/disney-world-to-add-nature-inspired-resort\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/10\/Disney-World-to-Add-Nature-Inspired-Resort.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,620\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Disney World to Add Nature Inspired Resort\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Disney World plans \u201cnature-inspired\u201d resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Disney World plans \u201cnature-inspired\u201d resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/10\/Disney-World-to-Add-Nature-Inspired-Resort.jpg?w=800\" class=\"wp-image-1004273732 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/10\/Disney-World-to-Add-Nature-Inspired-Resort.jpg\" alt=\"Disney World plans \u201cnature-inspired\u201d resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/10\/Disney-World-to-Add-Nature-Inspired-Resort.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/10\/Disney-World-to-Add-Nature-Inspired-Resort.jpg?resize=300,233 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/10\/Disney-World-to-Add-Nature-Inspired-Resort.jpg?resize=768,595 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004273732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walt Disney World plans \u201cnature-inspired\u201d resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At nearly 40 square miles and reportedly more than 50 million visitors a year, Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., is an entertainment behemoth by any standards. And now it will be getting bigger.<\/p>\n<p>A new \u201cnature-inspired\u201d deluxe resort\u2014as yet unnamed\u2014will open in 2022 along the shore of Disney World\u2019s Bay Lake, between Disney\u2019s Wilderness Lodge and Disney\u2019s Fort Wilderness Resort &amp; Campground.<\/p>\n<p>The resort, according to Disney, \u201c<em>will be themed to complement its natural surroundings<\/em>\u201d and will feature more than 900 hotel guestrooms and Disney Vacation Club villas spread across \u201c<em>a variety of unique accommodation types<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Walt Disney World is in the midst of our most significant expansion in the last two decades and the combined 1,700 new hotel guestrooms and proposed Disney Vacation Club villas we are building at four different resorts will create thousands of new construction and permanent jobs<\/em>,\u201d George Kalogridis, president of Walt Disney World Resort, said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<h2>The magic keeps growing, and greening<\/h2>\n<p>This new resort joins three others underway at Walt Disney World; together all four will deliver more than 1,700 new hotel guestrooms and Disney Vacation Club villas. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disney\u2019s Coronado Springs Resort, which opened in 1997 and will reopen next year with a new 15-story tower overlooking Lago Dorado and featuring 545 new guestrooms and suites, along with a two-level entrance lobby, new meeting spaces and a rooftop restaurant with panoramic views;<\/li>\n<li>Disney\u2019s Riviera Resort, currently under construction near Epcot and scheduled to open in 2019, will include about 300 units and will connect to Disney\u2019s Hollywood Studios and the International Gateway at Epcot via the Disney Skyliner;<\/li>\n<li>Star Wars: Galaxy\u2019s Edge at Disney\u2019s Hollywood Studios, an immersive Star Wars\u2013inspired destination and probably the highest-profile addition now underway is set to open next fall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In April, Disney World announced that it would be developing, in partnership with Duke Energy, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/new-disney-solar-farm-to-power-two-theme-parks\/\">50-megawatt solar project<\/a> to power two of its theme parks. When online around the end of this year, the estimated half a million solar panels across 270 acres should handle about 25 percent of the power needed at Disney World.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of Walt Disney World<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining three other new or extensively renovated destinations in the area, the project will bring more than 900 guestrooms and Disney Vacation Club villas to Lake Buena Vista, Fla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":1004273732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21808,21751,21742,1493],"tags":[35979],"class_list":["post-1004273726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-featured","category-hotel","category-latest","category-orlando","tag-walt-disney-world-resort"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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